American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847

By Matthew Wynn Sivils

Situating the origins of American environmental fiction in early Republic natural histories, Indian captivity narratives, juvenile literature, and the subsequent development of a uniquely American brand of environmental fiction that began with James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that these works of early environmental thought contributed to a growing cultural conception of the environment's importance in shaping the identity of the fledgling nation decades before the influences of Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walden.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409431630
• ISBN13: 9781409431633
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"